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Religion falls on an individual when he or she grows up in the world of commonsense . On the one hand, one faces uncertainty, danger, and fear as one explores surroundings. One wishes luck, fortune, and miracle as one experiments with things. One seeks guidance, direction, and protection as one lives commonsensical life step by step through trial and error. On the other hand, parents pass beliefs on to children naturally when they assume parental roles. Teachers cultivate faiths in children automatically when they teach them. Elders influence children with customs and traditions habitually when they watch, follow, and monitor the latter. This chapter explores individuals and individual life in religious dimension. For example, religious “scripts” radiate from classical texts such as the Bible in Christianity and the Quran in Islam . They address both origination and operation of the secular or commonsensical world. They provide teachings about morality, with particular attention to personal thoughts and individual behaviors. They prescribe what religious organizations do and perform. They dictate how religious personnel live and serve.
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Shaw, V.N. (2019). Reared in Religion. In: Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98195-6_6
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